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Okay, but the issue is not one of the clubs has the support or resources to do it. My money is on this being a structure catering to a select few as per usual in Rugby that generates little interest or value outside of those groups.

The SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) commission apparently met earlier this week. Apparently they are looking at a 6 team final series which makes sense and wait for it starting the season a week earlier. Taking it from 15 to 16 rounds. So looks like more of the same.

Well you're in the minority when it comes to Rugby supporters. Most of whom couldn't care less about them. And I say this as someone who has played for one of those clubs.

Not necessarily. For the 2nd Division you could keep much of the same format.

Yeah. That's what I said.

I assume you're referring to the teams in what would be the Championship level. There's no such thing as perfect and I certainly am not going to pretend otherwise. So players will inevitably miss out. However, I would suggest that the guys living in regional areas that would be competing in this...

It's RA. They'd struggle to hold in a fart let alone control a narrative.

The strangest part of this whole saga has been finding myself somewhat siding with RA on a number of the issues surrounding it. And I have a lot of issues with RA around how their ineptitude and atrophy has allowed the game to reach nadir after nadir seemingly on an annual basis in this country.

And it's nothing less than what the French and NRL do now anyway. There was a whole thing several years back about a number of French clubs having scouts set up in Fiji etc. specifically to identify and recruit junior talent to go to school in France.

Why not? Because it's summer. That has been the argument for a long time. That it would be too hot etc. But then the South Africans joined the URC and play in their summer and have done just fine. And their summer weather in terms of heat and humidity is fairly comparable to ours. If they can...

Why not use the Australian Rugby Shield? Run it across two divisions. A 'Premiership' and a 'Championship'. Premiership would feature rep squads from the Shute Shield, Hospitals Cup (two a piece), John Dent, Melbourne and Perth. The Championship would feature a team from Adelaide, Tasmania and...

The only way Japan gets involved in SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) is if the JRL1 structure has a spectacular collapse over the off season (and considering the crowds saw a 50% jump this season that seems unlikely) or some kind of Asia-Pacific Cup competition is developed. Which is something I would like to see.

They could cover the loss in content and then some if they moved to a full home and away season. At present the SRP (Super Rugby Pacific) season runs 84 games plus finals. Going to a home and away schedule would deliver 100 not including finals.

Not a Victorian taxpayer but if the NSW Govt. was going to use funds that would otherwise be better spent on services I would be pretty pissed off. I don't mind funding of community sports as they provide a greater good to the community but not professional sports. Part of why I'm happy to see...

What happened to the other $12m.

Neither are Georgia to be honest. They've proven that if they turn up that they've been able to stay competitive with any of the 6Ns U20s squads in recent years. And I can see them targeting this game.

The 6Ns isn't part of the NC nor will the RC. Not from the most recent reporting I saw. It would feature two 6 team pools with crossover games as opposed to pool games. That would mean we would play each of the 6Ns teams in the June/July and November windows with a final being held in the final...

NC is set to run during the current June/July and November windows. At least that's what I've seen so far. How would that impact the RC?

I think it may have been in Sydney.

What are you talking about? What other competition is there in the Asia-Pacific? Without Super Rugby there would be no Rebels to start with.